One of the toughest challenges faced by design teams is ensuring that the electrical and mechanical teams are working as cohesively as possible. Typically, the design tools used are disconnected and offer little to no integration between the electrical schematic and the mechanical assembly. The collaboration is often an afterthought and when done is a painstakingly manual process. Fortunately, SOLIDWORKS Electrical provides robust toolset for detailing electrical schematics in the 2D world while providing a link to represent components and wires in the 3D world.

Join us as SOLIDWORKS Electrical Expert, Sawyer Gara, leads us through an overview of the SOLIDWORKS Electrical Suite of products. We’ll start off in the 2D Schematic to create a simple circuit all while leveraging the shared parts and symbols library. When utilizing the parts and symbols library, we’ll discuss the major benefits of storing all your information in one place. From there, SOLIDWORKS Electrical can leverage some intelligence for a profound automation effect to generate things like Bills of Materials and Wire Run Lists at the click of a button. Finally, we’ll pop over into SOLIDWORKS CAD to leverage SOLIDWORKS Electrical 3D to easily place the correct component in the assembly and automatically route wires to exactly where they need to go.

Key Takeaways:

· Understand the Unified Parts/Symbol Library

· Automatically Generate Robust Reports

· Link Schematics to SOLIDWORKS CAD

· Automatically Route Cables and Wires

· Integrate with SOLIDWORKS PDM